My first con. With some of the best talks I've heard (and not
just
because it was the first time I'd heard them!)

Programme highlights

Tom
Shippey
:
SF: The Other Side of the Hill
-- English has
a native word for the concept
dour
, but not for
panache
-- SF's large vocabulary (words ending in -oon, 'amphigory' used on the
first page of Heinlein's
NotB
)

Dave Langford
:
The
Dragon-Hikers Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey 2
The
Silence of the Langford